Give a day to walking the shelter's dogs
“You turn up sure you'll be in the way of people who do this properly. By the third lead you are the thing a dog that waits all week was waiting for.”
The Recipe
- Ring the nearest animal shelter earlier in the week and ask to help walk dogs for a day.
- Get there for the morning, when the kennels are loudest and the walks have not started.
- Take whichever dog they hand you first, not the one you would have chosen.
- Walk each one the full round, and let the nervous ones set the pace.
- Eat your lunch where the staff eat theirs, and ask how a dog ends up here.
- Go back out for the afternoon dogs when your arms have already had enough.
- Sit with the one that is hardest to rehome for the last ten minutes before you go.
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